Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-02
SQUIBS.

At the present rate of decrease the ma
tional debt will disappear in twelve
years.
Never allow child to use a shert slate
pencil or lead pencil. 1t spoils the hand
writing.
cross old bachelor suggests that
births should be announced under tie
head of new music.
In the last twelve years the United
States has received 100000 emisrauts
from the old world.
TIE use OF the telephone is becoming
very COMMON in Germany. Berlin alone
has 5,507 stations.
Qrear, is it not, that base ball should
depend very much upon the pitcher, and
cricket upon the bowl?
| Agoodly pot of ducats is represented
by the gold and bsad embroidery seen on
wcmen's gowns.
The first letter the new postmaster at
| Kempton, ILL.,, had received in six wears
was the one con; aiming his commission.
| The first iron boat is thought to have
been built in 1777, on the River Foss, in
Yorkshire. 1t was fifteen felt long, and
| made of sheet iron.
Carrie Brown" once famous in circus
circles as the champion juvenile bareback
rider of the world, is nova prominent
officer in the Salvation army.
The United States revenue returns show
| 4,033 saloons in Iowa, 1852 in Kansas.
| 446 in Vermont, and l 262 N Maine-all
states in which prohibition prohibits in
| theory.
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stand her age, and she promptly replied:
| "Old enough to have sold milk for YOU
to drink when baby, and haven't got
my pay yet"
At her drawing room Queen Victoria
personally receives only eighty, and when
that number have been presented she re-
tires and leaves the Princess of Wales
to receive the rest.
Clara Louise Kellogg has entered the
| the field against the high hat. When she
appears on the stage she smilingly re-
| quests the Lads to take ethem off so she
can see the gentlemen.
Some of those collapsed coffee-specu.
| iatlng firms in New York get mad
when they are asked, "Well, Java good
| Uime?n
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cream and drinking lemonade to build
church, her patriotism is bounded by
| very elastic corset.
A writer on political economy saws:
| ITS the little leaks that tell" Yes in
deed; little leak will give you away "a
fast as an overgrown onion.
| 1t is a singular fact. but nevertheless
true, that when two young men meet they
address each other, Glow are you, old
mani" and that when two old fellows
meet they say, "My boy"
A regular epidemic of comm atching
has broken out in Wall street, New York.
About one half the members OF the stock
exchange indulge in the pastime. A com
| plant has been filed against them.
The origin of geometry is ascribed to
| the Egyptians, who, having their land
marks annually washed away by inunda-
| tions, in efforts to devise plan for read
| lily restoring them discovered the princi-
| pies of geometry.
These are the costs of various college
gymnasium.; Harvard, $4,000; Yale,
| Sl25,000; Princeton, $38 900; Amherst,
$4,000; Columbia, $156,OOO; Williams,
| $4,000: Cornell, $4,000; Lehigh, $40
| 900, and Dartmouth, $4,000.
The following colleges on the 1st of
December reported over thousand
students: Harvard, 1880; Columbia,
489: University of Michigan, 1,475;
Oberlin, 1902; Yale, l, 164; Northwestern,
LOO; University of Pennsylvania, 1869.